What's New in TiDB Operator 1.2

TiDB Operator 1.2 introduces the following key features, which helps you manage TiDB clusters and the tools more easily in terms of extensibility, usability, and security.

Extensibility

• Support customizing labels and annotations for Pods and services in TidbCluster
• Support configuring podSecurityContext and topologySpreadConstraints for all TiDB components
• Support full lifecycle management of Pump
• TidbMonitor supports monitoring multiple TidbClusters
• TidbMonitor supports remotewrite
• TidbMonitor supports configuring Thanos sidecar
• TidbMonitor management resource changes from Deployment to StatefulSet to provide more flexibility
• Support deploying TiDB Operator with namespace permissions only
• Support deploying multiple sets of TiDB Operator to manage different TiDB clusters separately

Usability

• Add DMCluster CR to manage DM 2.0
• Support customizing store labels for TiKV and TiFlash
• Support customizing storage for TiDB slow log
• TiDB Lightning chart supports configuring local-backend and persisting the checkpoint information

Security

• Support configuring TLS for the TiDB Lightning chart and TiKV Importer chart

Experimental features

• Support deploying a TiDB cluster across multiple Kubernetes clusters